BUSINESS ANALYST

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Business Analyst position will be responsible for analyzing business issues, providing recommendations for possible solutions, and working with stakeholders to drive decision making and define requirements for program or project development.

This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay Rate : $42.20 - $60.29 Benefits :

• Paid holidays : 11
• PTO : Starting at 10 days
• Sick Leave : Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
• EAP : Employee Assistance Program
• Benefit Options Available : Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life / AD&D, Voluntary Life / AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
• Other benefits include the following : Calm App, Access Perks Responsibilities :
• Facilitate large teams in problem solving and identifying improvement opportunities using industry methodologies (i.e. Kanban, GE Workout or like tools / models).
• Perform organizational maturity analysis, assess gaps, and draft maturity roadmaps based on management goals and objectives.
• Provide analysis and support in the development / draft and recommendation of tools for organizational alignment, strategic content, alignment of capabilities and work, and a roadmap for success.
• Conduct background research and interview end-users, stakeholders, and other interested internal parties (customers) to gather and understand customer / end-user requirements, which may include software solutions and / or business process, procedure, or workflow development, present solution recommendations for management, executive, stakeholder consideration and approval.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), other analysts, technical specialists, and teams to perform root cause analysis and lessons learned, as part of identifying opportunities to apply business or process improvement strategies.
• Support the structure for, facilitate the planning of, and assist with the development, draft, recommendation, and implementation of management approved initiatives, studies, analyses, and projects supporting business and process analysis and continuous improvement efforts.
• Plan, facilitate, and conduct working sessions to analyze and document / map current state processes and value streams, and future state processes and value streams.
• Facilitate decision making to verify that key requirements of the future state are vetted and agreed to across the Transmission Engineering and Technical Services / Transmission Value Chain.
• Evaluate and assess business process change impacts and recommend appropriate change mitigation activities.
• Perform all analytical tasks related to a project, including requirements definition, validation, management, and supporting documentation (i.

e. process flows, user stories, use cases) and related testing; assist with implementation activities that contribute to system, process, and business improvements.

• Provide background information, technical input, options, and recommendations that facilitate decision-making and that will enable key requirements of improvement projects, project milestones, and / or implemented solutions to be met.
• As requested, perform appropriate testing of recommended and management-approved solutions, which may include creating, drafting, and recommending new analytical tools or components, new or revised workflows, processes, standards, business-case criteria, and / or mitigation measures.
• Facilitate the definition and documentation of busine To view the full job description,
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